Improvement in bed-bottoms



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l ,rInthe drawing-` .am ses @mit @tina f BENJAMIN." elenco, 'or nnnnneron, VERMONT..

i Leners Patent No.` 108,018, dated october 4,1870.

' IMPROVEMENT mnED-Bor'roMs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part-of the same.

`Be,` it knowinthat I, BNAMIN GREGG, of Bennington, in `the county of Bennington and State of `Vcrmont,.have invented afcertain new and 'useful Improvement in Bed-Bottoms, `and the following is here- .by declaredto be a'fnll and oorrectdescription of the p same.

ln Letters Patent grantedto vme August 1l, 1868, ametallic plate .spring for` bed-bottoms wasshown. n l its `lower end, to the head or.foot-gu'ards of the bedstead,and from said place of yattachmentthe spring projeetedinward and d upward, and at the upperend wasformed as a crotch or saddle, to receive thefslat of the bedstead.

The `springs at the opposite endsof the slats bendi fing toward `each lotheryas weight came upon them, caused said springs to` slide upon the under sides of I'the slats, occasionin noise `and g friction, and the tendency of weight upon the slats was to force-the springs fromftheir place of attachment.v

'lo overcome those ,difficulties is ythe object of lny n 'present invention; and'saidl improvement oonsistsin a metallic 'plate `.spring iitted at the upper Vend with thecrotch or saddle to receive the Slat', asin said patent, and with Athe lower end of the spring bent into a horizontal position, soas to be attached to acrossslator bearer, tothe placed between the side rails of the bedstad. Y d y l. I

I place, said springs' at the `oppositeends of the slats and parallel orfnearly so to "each other, sc that the movement of the .slats as weight comes upon them.

\ `willbe nearly parallel, and thus'prevent the noise and .friction, because the parts will move'together instead of the slats vand springs rubbing against each other.`

Fignrelis a longitudinal section of myi'improved `bed-bottom,and

.Fgure2 is a plan of the same, some of the s lats being represented asbmken off, to show the springs more clearly.

d ctare the cross-slats or bearers to whichvthe springs are attached,` and these bearers are to be supporledrb'y strips or cleats upon the side rails of the bedstead. i c

- The springs are formed `with horizontal portlons, b, toset upon the bearcrsa, and are-to be attached to the same by screws,'orv in any desired manner. .The

parts c of said' springs project upward, and vatan inclination, as shown, and at the ends are-formed with the Vcrotohes orv saddles d d, to receive the slats e e,

and said slatseare notched to set wit-hin said saddles.'

These notches' should be of sucient length torallow of aslight movement of the slats-in said saddles.

I' place the, springs in the manner' shown in lig. 1, so thatthe ends of the springs of each slat will have a nearly parallel `movement as said ends and slat arel depressed or raised as aforesaid; thus there willI be but little sliding .motion upon the under sides ofthe slats, l

and thewea-rand noise occasioned thereby will vbe avoided. 1

., I claim as my invention- The bed-,bottom'with springs between the bearers a and slats e, theinclined ends c of the springs being placed parallel or nearly so to eachother, and providel withsaddles, d,ras and for the purposes set fort Dated April 19, A. D. 1870. Witnesses: y BENJAMIN GREGG. J..W.,VA1L, THOMAS WHITE. l 

